TELESCOPE CAN FIND ‘OODLES’ OF EARTHS

The orbiting Kepler telescope has spotted a Jupiter sized planet around another star – a sighting that demonstrates it can see Earth-like planets if they are out there,scientists reported.

The planet, called HAT-P-7b,was already among the 300 or so known so called ex-trasolar planets, the team led by NASA reported, But measurements of its orbit by kepler
Show the telescope will be able to see smaller planets, they reported in the journal Science.

“We think it is likely that Kepler is going to find oodles and oodles of Earths”, astrobiologist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington told a news conference.